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"Danny Garcia vs. Shawn Porter For WBC Interim-Title?"

Mauricio Sulaiman, President of the World Boxing Council, is going to order a championship fight for the interim-WBC welterweight world title.

Sulaiman told ESPN Deportes that he's going to order the fight because the current champion Keith Thurman is unlikely to return to the ring until the early part of 2018.

Thurman, who also owns the WBA world title, captured the WBC belt in March with a twelve round decision over Danny Garcia.

Thurman, who recently got married, suffered a bad elbow injury and has undergone surgery. He was planning to return to the ring by the end of the year. However, a few days ago it was revealed that Thurman would not be ready to fight until the first quarter of 2018.

Sulaiman indicated that they are looking for the best ranked fighters, who are ready and available, to order the match. The WBC will likely order the two highest ranked fighters to collide, and if either on them refuse then the sanctioning body will go down the list to the next available contender.

Currently, the WBC's number one ranked fighter is Shawn Porter (27-2-1, 17 KOs) and Danny Garcia (33-1, 19 KOs) is sitting in the number two slot.

Both boxers are advised by Al Haymon and fight under the Premier Boxing Champions banner.

Thoughts?

Very good fight. Will Garcia go for it?

Ruthless-RKO wrote:Very good fight. Will Garcia go for it?

Awesome fight. If Thurman isn't ready for the winner, I'm sure Spence will be. I thought recently Spence said he wanted to fight Garcia or Porter next? Maybe they didn't hear him.

Just goes to show that Al Haymon has major influence over the WBC and can have title bouts made whenever he wants between whichever two fighters he wants.

That being said, this is a good fight between 2 Top 10 Welterweights, if you put aside the BS and just look at it as what it is. Two very good Top 10 ranked Boxers in their primes facing off against each other who haven't previously fought. I'm down.

I would expect Porter to prevail close but clear.

Ezzard wrote:I would expect Porter to prevail close but clear.

It's tough to say. This is a real interesting matchup. A close decision win either way or a draw I could easily see.

Garcia is the better all-around talent, but he better show more fire than he did in his matchup with Thurman, or Porter will outhustle him for a decision.

I don't know why Garcia would shy away from a title shot, even if it's a somewhat bogus title.

It's still a money fight and I don't recall Garcia avoiding any top fighters.

Badhusker wrote:

Ruthless-RKO wrote:Very good fight. Will Garcia go for it?

Awesome fight. If Thurman isn't ready for the winner, I'm sure Spence will be. I thought recently Spence said he wanted to fight Garcia or Porter next? Maybe they didn't hear him.

And if Spence can beat the winner, he gains the Interim WBC title, which makes him mandatory for Thurman. Kinda similar to when GGG won the interin title.

Yes please. As well as those Spence to fight the winner suggestions.

Ruthless-RKO wrote:

Badhusker wrote:

Ruthless-RKO wrote:Very good fight. Will Garcia go for it?

Awesome fight. If Thurman isn't ready for the winner, I'm sure Spence will be. I thought recently Spence said he wanted to fight Garcia or Porter next? Maybe they didn't hear him.

And if Spence can beat the winner, he gains the Interim WBC title, which makes him mandatory for Thurman. Kinda similar to when GGG won the interin title.

Spence might have to drop his full title to compete for the lesser one.

Garcia - Porter would be a really badass fight. Both of them are good enough to merit having a belt and their waists, especially the winner of the fight. One major downside is the interim champ would be either of two guys Thurman has already fought, so... it doesn't at any intriguing unification in the future. But there are not many other combinations of fighters that I would prefer to see fighting for the interim belt; especially not with Brook having lots of negative momentum and various broken eye sockets.

gilgamesh wrote:Just goes to show that Al Haymon has major influence over the WBA and can have title bouts made whenever he wants between whichever two fighters he wants.

What do you mean by this? How does your comment relate to the potential Gracia-Porter WBC interim title fight?

I would have Porter as the favourite in this.

Enlightened-One wrote:

gilgamesh wrote:Just goes to show that Al Haymon has major influence over the WBA and can have title bouts made whenever he wants between whichever two fighters he wants.

What do you mean by this? How does your comment relate to the potential Gracia-Porter WBC interim title fight?

I meant the WBC

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I think this is Garcia's fight to win. Porter comes at you, gives you alot of opportunities to counter and Garcia is a very dangerous counter puncher. I personally see Porter jumping in with his rough house tactics and getting clipped, not once, but multiple times to the point Garcia gets him out of there by TKO. Porter will have his success but I truly believe Garcia will stop Porter within 8 rounds.

Great fight none the less and I really don't have a dog in the fight. Hope it happens and may the best man win, I just feel Garcia has the upper hand style wise in this one.

NateJR wrote:I think this is Garcia's fight to win. Porter comes at you, gives you alot of opportunities to counter and Garcia is a very dangerous counter puncher. I personally see Porter jumping in with his rough house tactics and getting clipped, not once, but multiple times to the point Garcia gets him out of there by TKO. Porter will have his success but I truly believe Garcia will stop Porter within 8 rounds.

Great fight none the less and I really don't have a dog in the fight. Hope it happens and may the best man win, I just feel Garcia has the upper hand style wise in this one.

I agree for the most part, except for the KO part. Thurman hit Porter with some huge shots, and Porter kept coming. I thought Thurman beat Porter by a lot wider margin than most too. Porter's style is ugly, and Thurman made him look foolish at times. I do favor Garcia to win though, for the reason's you stated. Unless DG hits harder than Thurman though, I kind of doubt if he stops him.

Danny Garcia vs. Shawn Porter - WBC Interim-Title Order Looms

Thurman was scheduled to make a voluntary defense in a Showtime televised bout on May 19 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York - but it's been revealed that he's unable to go forward due to a hand injury.

He has two mandatory challengers waiting for him - Garcia (34-1, 20 KOs) and Shawn Porter (28-2-1, 17 KOs).

Porter became the mandatory challenger last year, after stopped former champion Andre Berto.

And Garcia became the secondary mandatory back in February, after knocking out Brandon Rios in a final eliminator.

The only solution, says Sulaiman, is to order a fight between Garcia and Porter for the WBC's interim-world title at 147.

"Unfortunately [Thurman] has been injured again. He can not continue as a champion, he has not defended the title for more than a year, we had been consistent with him after the injury he had but with this new injury it is very possible that the fight is ordered for the interim title between Porter and García, who are the two mandatory challengers," Sulaiman said to ESPN Deportes.

I like this fight. Makes sense for both guys at this time.

It's so stupid to have 2 mandatories at once. How does that even work. This is better, have Porter vs. Garcia for the Interim belt and then that's it settled.. winner fights Thurman when he'a fit.

Don't get how Garcia quickly became '2nd mandatory' after having not fought in nearly a year and then beating Brandon Rios, who I doubt was ranked in WBC's top 5..

Ruthless-RKO wrote: ↑05 Apr 2018, 12:57 It's so stupid to have 2 mandatories at once. How does that even work. This is better, have Porter vs. Garcia for the Interim belt and then that's it settled.. winner fights Thurman when he'a fit.

Don't get how Garcia quickly became '2nd mandatory' after having not fought in nearly a year and then beating Brandon Rios, who I doubt was ranked in WBC's top 5..

He's a name and Haymon has the WBC in his pocket so if he wants him ranked, he's ranked.

Both of these guys proved to be merely a hair worse than Thurman. Between them, they have a laundry list of scalps with name value like Peterson, Matthysse, Broner, Khan, Alexander, Berto, Judah, Granados, Malignaggi x2, Holt, Campbell, Guerrero, Rios, etc. So I think this fight is pretty good. My only concern is that we basically know exactly how good these guys are, and even if one of them beats the other, that doesn't mean that they're not damned close to one another. I consider Garcia and Porter to be #3 and #4, after Spence and Pacquiao. I think I would probably rate the winner of this fight #3, still behind Pacquiao.

I'd watch it for Garcia. I enjoy watching him fight.

Somewhere out there Danny and his dad are punching a wall with anger. They gonna have to refuse this one because we all know that Porter will turn that 1 loss column into a 2.